Need to pull a date from a web site.

[DFlat4Now]

Very much a beginner C# person. I need something simple and I'm pretty sure it can be done. I need to go to a website and simply see if a date has changed. I it has I need to pull the date back in. The date always follows the same three words so it will be easy to find. Thanks for any who can help dflat4now

[chaiguy1337]

Not sure I fully understand this, but it sounds like you're talking about a specific web page, and you know roughly where to find this date on the specific page. That should be easy enough--just download the content to a string via http, then "find" the date in the string (i.e. by locating the "same three words"), trim the rest away so you just have the date text, then parse this into a DateTime object using either DateTime.Parse, or another (third party) date-parsing algorithm (there are some on CodeProject) depending on the format of the date.

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[N a v a n e e t h]

Use WebClient class to download the webpage content. Write a regular expresssion which finds the required date.

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[_tasleem]

as N a v a n e e t h posted, use regular expresssion, there is software on code project named "EXPRESSo" i think it will be helpful for you to build the regular expressions. :)

Regards. Tasleem Arif